The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-04-30
SOUTH AS AFFECTING IT'S
AGRICULTURE.

| AGRICULTURE.
One need not be an optimist to be-
iieve that the outlook for the future of
Southern agriculture is more hopeful
now than it has been for a long Hme
past, particularly in those sections of
the States of Alabama, Tennessee and
Georgia whose rich mineral deposits
are now attracting the attention Of
American and English capitalists.
For years few lage cities of the South
have grown at the expense of the
smaller ones. There are not enough
consumers outside Of few central
points. The economic balance is un.-
settled by an overplus of producers !;
and when the man of new ideas brings
Il big harvest OF perishabie products to
n Siuited market, no finds that success.
fui farming comprises not only the
raising of good crops, but the ability
| to transfer them into ready money at
paying prices.
I Now, with the working Of mines,
the establishment of furnaces, the
quarrying of marble and stone and
slate, and the development of many
new industries, there has come pre-
cisely what the farmer needs, viz, the
influx Of a great army Of consum-
ers. The building Of tho many new
lines Of competing railways, now pros
jected in the interests of these new
enterprises, Will give him cheaper
freight rates TO the large centers of
population, and thus render him
practically independent Of home mar
tets. The Intimate outcome Of The
ninera! development of the now South
can bring nothing but good to its
agriculture, and its people, american
-i9TicuHurist fo2 DAuy.
Garter !ayris0n's picture of The
! Chicago of the future Is worthy Of bo
ing printed separately and by itself,
"uumiXed With baser NATTER" as
Hamlet says. Here it is;
! With minded Republican
Mayor all will go swimmingiy. There
is no Democratic paper in the city, and
the Republican press will shut its eyes
10 bis little mistakes. The Occup alton
of the papers will be gone; they will
caper nimbly in the Mayors Office TO
the seductive pleasure of patronage.
The people viii soon learn that Chicago
IS redeemed. The winter of discomfort
will be made glorious summer. The
clouds which lowered over State street
will bc Gispei!ed its devils will be
turned to missions. The world wilt be
told that Chicago Is not 0nly a sum.
mer resort, but that young ladies' can
take moonlight slrolls all alone at
midnight ou any of its streets. Board
OF Trade men will buy for eraugers
millions o! bushels Of graiu with II
guarantee OF profit. Maepleson will
bring the diva for one more farewell
trip without guarantee against loss, for
the 10000 lewd women of one of my
admiring preachers will become chaste
opera goers, and will, while watching
aerial ballet dauccrs clothed in trans-
parent gauzy nothing, hum from
nMoscs in Egypt" to Arcadian dudes
who write glibly at q penny line.
When John Sherman was Secretary
OF tile Treasury the orphan daughter
of AN army officer applied for a situa.
ton. There was none FOR her-nothins
) iha, she could do. But she persisted
I She knew there was plenty she couit
do, and the Secretary was at loss bJ
. what prutext he could dismiss her
= Epllt sui W. tAl MN IIbiIl bNhb w IDpi
e and Observing that his boots were no
Z we'll shlned, remarked with muci
/ earuCstness: sMr. Sherman, | thini
] there il something ! can do for you,
: you will permit me, and that is TO Civ
e your boots fir5,-cias5 shine. My cas-
e is more desperate than you imagine
g and | will! accept II position as depart
g meutal buOtbisck." The Secretar
4 was so a5tonished that it was severs
e seconds before he recovered sufiicienu
Is to direct his clerk to have the youn
i lady appointed to 5000 cierkshi
II She has since married and is doir
Sc well.